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Young love -- the old-fashioned kind that flourished before the age of the hook-up -- has always been one of the most challenging emotions to portray on the screen with any specificity. Beyond the smooches, sighs, and adoring glances, how do you...

This weekend offers two life-affirming fables. Each of these television films telegraphs its trajectory within minutes. Each follows its course to a fortune-cookie-quality moral about the magical power of love (and the lovely power of magic). Taken...

BY his own admission, Paul Johansson lived his teenage years riding a slippery slope to nowhere. Fast. ''I was a bad kid,'' Mr. Johansson said in a recent telephone interview from a hotel in Manhattan, where he was screening his new film, ''The...

July 6, 2003, Sunday

When Charlie Kate dislikes you, she doesn't fool around. She despises her sleazy, womanizing son-in-law so much, for instance, that she delivers her daughter's baby on the porch. Having vowed never to set foot inside the house as long as the...

Sometimes television surprises you with an unexpected little gem like ''Wild Iris,'' a movie with performances of clarity and grace. This Showtime presentation will be shown tomorrow and Friday at 8 p.m. and on Aug. 21 at 6:15 p.m. Laura Linney...

August 4, 2001, Saturday

The young-adult novel ''Freak the Mighty'' by Rodman Philbrick has been renamed ''The Mighty'' for a more inspirational effect on screen. Still, it's mostly a story for the age group that would find ''Freak'' the most enticing word in the title. In...

''Paulie'' is a road movie about a bird. That description may prompt cries of ''oxymoron,'' but Paulie, the gabby, sassy hero of this warm and witty family film is definitely a bird of a different color, especially if you come from a city where...